Improvement in lath-machine



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sAMUELMQPA ER AND GEORGE E. PALMER, or SANDY HILL, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 104,637, dated Jtme'2l, 1870.

mrnovnmnn'r IN LATE-MACHINE.

1.Be it known that we, SAMUEL M. PALMER. and

1 Gnome E..PALMER, of Sandy Hill, in the county of Wor hington and, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machinelt'or- Manufacturin Lath, Staves, and other lumber of a similar kind or form;

a and, we do hereby declare that the following is a t'nll,

, clear, and exact description of ,the construction and' operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexedidrawing making apa'rt of this specification, and to the'i lctters of reference marked thereon, in

Figure 1 is a plan, and l 1 V Figure 2 a transverse section. The nature-of ourinventiou consists in the com- ,blnatlon andarrrangement .of devices hereinafter det scribed, for cutting lat-lgsteves, andother lumber of .a similar. form.

To enable others skillet lg "the art to make and structionand operation. r U l We placeon, one end of the,arbor Aa gang oi saws,

two or more, as seen at O, for sawing bolts.

Also, on the, otherendot" the arbor A, a. gang of o two or more saws, B, for sa ing lath. We use three flutedfeed llers, H, H, and E, and

two smooth press-rollergyF and F, and one bearingroller, La. w H xi The. zijofithe' feetlrrollers and press-rollers is such-that; notable board is required. Tbespace between the saws .in-the is entirely op'en,-so that all loose pieces, suchfasslivcrs a nd kuots that are loosened and become detachedjn sawing, may drop through-the space betiveenthe saws moreJeodily'and more safely than eycoul if the sawswere running in a slottedtehbardfiglso, the arrangement of sawing ,sawsflto befdiminishedequttl-to thejthickness of the table-board; also, it enables-the operator toremoge thesaws for thepnrpose ofxflling "or for placing them WitLlOllli a'ta e-board allows the radius of the vvider'laparfi or nearer .toget er on the arbor, so as to 'sowglumberof diflerent thickness without disturbing ormoving any other piece or part of the machine. Aroundornear the feed-roller/Ejare placed two or press-rollers Fand F,- -l earing-rol v D, when constrlucted substantially-as and for the pur V The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same more guides, D, which are not attached to the feed-roller E, but to-the frame-work of the machine, and have a length snfllcient to reacb'above the bolt,being sawed far enough to be firmly held in place at that point,

and they are placed in'a line with the saws B in the gang, and are of the right thickness to touch slightly against the lath as it passes from the saws in the gang, and are designed to hold the lath from falling rods KK, which. lower rods K K-are held by guides or boxes, so that they'can only move up and down, and are moved up aud 'down by a lever, M, worked by hand or foot. I

The whole frame Late rods I I I I and rods K K, being combined with the press-rollers F and F, so as to hold the press rollers exzwtly level and paralleh the whole to be of sufficient weight to hold the-bolt firmly onto the-feed-rollers as it passes through the machine in the process of being sawed into lath.

The gang of bolting saws O is to be arranged in combination with feed-rollers, revolving guard, pressrollers, and bcaring-roll 'jin the same manner-as the gang of saws for lath above described.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to sccure by Letters Patent,iis

1. Thearbor A,,bolting-sa\vs O,"and lath-saws B, in combination with tle feed-rolilers H, H,-and E, L, andthe' guides 2; The ress i'ollersji and F', in :connectiohtvitli. the adjustable frame J and guide-rods I I II and-K K, in the manner end f the purposes described.

' AMUELM. PALMER.

EORGE E. PALMER.

Witnesses: 1' J. K. PIXLEY,-

A. M. OLEMENTS. 

